St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-02
THE CHICAGO MIDDLE.
Mayor Harrison Alleged to Have Been 10
Conference with the Socialists
Yesterday.
The Reds Jubilant Over the Prospect Oh
Success Blatant Joe Gruen-
hut Talks.
Mr. onahan, Prominent Democrat
Repudiates the Labor Party
Entirely.
Confusion in the Wards--An Uns
awaiting Club Meeting Last
Night.

CHICAGO. April 1.-Emissaries from tho
soclalistic headquarters have had frequeIa
communications with Mayor Harrison to.
day, and they now boldly assert that thel
can show list of 40. 900 pledged voters TO,
the socialistic ticket. 10 Gruenhut, the
Leading light of the socialists, and city
employe under Harrison, says:
History is being made very fast lust now.
you see. Chicago is q European colony. The
masses are day laborers who do not own their
business. Three hundred firms employ 49,.
CuU Workmen within ten miles of the city hall
IL Is distinctly capitalistic city. Here the
nght is to be made between labor and capital
They are now face to face and the time has
come. Harrison is playing a peculiar part
He was never elected by Democrats. The
socialists made him. He has been honest
enough to at last acknowledge it. The tablet
nave changed. The socialists have their OWE
ucKet ana The Democrats are asked to
GET OUT OF THE Way
The mayor is in a place to help them. II
has been done. The Democrats will now re-
turn the compliment by voting the socialists
ticket. This is the unGerstandln e. The pres.
ent holders OF appointive Offices will not bs
disturbed. On Tuesday next all OF the wheek
horses OF the Democracy will vote our ticket
knowing they will share the benefits The
campaign will cost them nothing anS
their old enemies, the Republicans
Will go down before the fusion ticket
Talk about the Irish! / tell you that coercioE
Dill is making Irishmen into wild socialist
every day. We will carry every Irish ward in
Chicago. By next Sunday evening peop:S
may become desperate for fear of the socias
ISIS. ire cltlZenS may rise up in day and
compel all party lines to be dropped and de-
mand union of all citizens to defeat the
socialists. If they become alarmed at the
commune they may do it. There is contest
between the American commune and the can.
ltalists. 1t is irresistible.
Two letters issued this evening are Great.
ing much comment. The first was from
Mayor Harrison's appointee as city col,
lector, William Onahan, widely known as
the president of the Irish Catholic Colo,
niZation society. Mr.. Onahan was the
Democrat candidate for city treasurer. His
letter emphatically announces that unlike
Mayor Harrison, he will, under no circum-
stances, give the slightest aid to the elec.
ton OF ticket put forward and cham.
ploned oy all the known and avowed allies
OF socialism and anarchy" Continuing,
MIR. oNAHAN SAYS:
MIR. Powderly, who represents and is the of.
fetal spokesman for the legitimate labor or,
CARNATIONS of the country, repudiates ard
disavows as / am Informed, the action of the
ward in Chicago as a labor party.
The success of the so-called labor ticket
the latter declares, would be fatal to the
business interests of the city and the rea.
welfare OF the laboring classes. Mr., Ona.
han concludes with the words:
If must choose election dav between the
Republican ticket and that championed by
the socialists. 1 shall vote the Republican
ticket.
The other letter causing discussion iS
from Robert Nelson, the United Labor can.
didate for mayor. Mr.. Nelson SAYS in il
that he WILL if elected, regard the Office of
mayor as great and grave public trust.
Efficiency will be his sole guide in making
appointments or removals from Office. and
property and the rights of the people will
be protected and the laws enforced. Re-
publicans and Democrats alike pronounce
Mr.. Nelson's letter sop to the legion Of
Democratic officers and city employees.
THE COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CLUB,
an organization occupying middle ground
between the silk-stocking and the short
hair element of the party, held meeting
tonight presided over by Charles Kern, at
which it was expected that an anti-Harri.
son Democrat would be nominated for
mayor, or the Republican nominee.
Roche, Endorsed. Nothing of either kind
was attempted and the meeting adjourned
without traDsacting any important bust
ness. The Democratic South town con-
vention assembled to-day but failed to put
up any candidates for town offices or do
anything else. So great is the confusion
in Democratic circles that in a number Of
the wards there are no Democratic candi.
dates for places as aldermen